git-send-pack

GIT-SEND-PACK(1)                  Git Manual                  GIT-SEND-PACK(1)

NAME
       git-send-pack - Push objects over Git protocol to another repository

SYNOPSIS
       git send-pack [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
                       [--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic]
                       [--[no-]signed|--signed=(true|false|if-asked)]
                       [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]

DESCRIPTION
       Usually you would want to use git push, which is a higher-level wrapper
       of this command, instead. See git-push(1).

       Invokes git-receive-pack on a possibly remote repository, and updates
       it from the current repository, sending named refs.

OPTIONS
       --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>
           Path to the git-receive-pack program on the remote end. Sometimes
           useful when pushing to a remote repository over ssh, and you do not
           have the program in a directory on the default $PATH.

       --exec=<git-receive-pack>
           Same as --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.

       --all
           Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, update all
           heads that locally exist.

       --stdin
           Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there are refs
           specified on the command line in addition to this option, then the
           refs from stdin are processed after those on the command line.

           If --stateless-rpc is specified together with this option then the
           list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must be
           in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.

       --dry-run
           Do everything except actually send the updates.

       --force
           Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an
           ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. This flag disables
           the check. What this means is that the remote repository can lose
           commits; use it with care.

       --verbose
           Run verbosely.

       --thin
           Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
           on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.

       --atomic
           Use an atomic transaction for updating the refs. If any of the refs
           fails to update then the entire push will fail without changing any
           refs.

       --[no-]signed, --signed=(true|false|if-asked)
           GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving side, to
           allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be logged. If false or
           --no-signed, no signing will be attempted. If true or --signed, the
           push will fail if the server does not support signed pushes. If set
           to if-asked, sign if and only if the server supports signed pushes.
           The push will also fail if the actual call to gpg --sign fails. See
           git-receive-pack(1) for the details on the receiving end.

       --push-option=<string>
           Pass the specified string as a push option for consumption by hooks
           on the server side. If the server doesn't support push options,
           error out. See git-push(1) and githooks(5) for details.

       <host>
           A remote host to house the repository. When this part is specified,
           git-receive-pack is invoked via ssh.

       <directory>
           The repository to update.

       <ref>...
           The remote refs to update.

SPECIFYING THE REFS
       There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the remote end.

       With --all flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to the
       remote side. You cannot specify any <ref> if you use this flag.

       Without --all and without any <ref>, the heads that exist both on the
       local side and on the remote side are updated.

       When one or more <ref> are specified explicitly (whether on the command
       line or via --stdin), it can be either a single pattern, or a pair of
       such pattern separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name
       cannot have a colon in it). A single pattern <name> is just a shorthand
       for <name>:<name>.

       Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and
       the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be pushed is
       determined by finding a match that matches the source side, and where
       it is pushed is determined by using the destination side. The rules
       used to match a ref are the same rules used by git rev-parse to resolve
       a symbolic ref name. See git-rev-parse(1).

       o   It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the local
           refs.

       o   It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.

       o   If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either

           o   it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the destination
               literally in this case.

           o   <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
               exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src> locally
               is used as the name of the destination.

       Without '--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst>
       does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an ancestor) of
       <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", is performed in order
       to avoid accidentally overwriting the remote ref and lose other
       peoples' commits from there.

       With --force, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.

       Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus + sign to
       disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.25.1                        04/26/2023                  GIT-SEND-PACK(1)